He could always come back in another guise and without the baggage. I suppose it's easy to feel that the whole forum is against you when you get a few negative comments when in reality it's only an extremely small minority.
Knocky's Nose is one of the more recent and conspicuous departees but was also a relatively new arrival.
He didn't merely wander into the sunset though, his departure was more like watching a car crash in slow motion. I felt a bit sorry for him as I thought it all got a bit unnecessarily out of...